Note: I originally wrote this in 2013 but I’m updating this during the Coronavirus pandemic because more people are presenting online now.
Webinars are a powerful way to communicate from afar. They have opened up many possibilities for marketing, meetings, and training. But only if you do webinars right.
If you simply show slides with the text that you’re reading, this is what happens:
- Your audience scans the text quickly
- They then turn their attention to you speaking, but you’re saying the same thing they’ve just read (because people can read the slide much faster than you can speak it out)
- So they start multi-tasking — checking their email, checking out other web pages, doing other work, etc.
Well, isn’t that what you do when you watch a webinar like that?
But you can do better. Here are the 8 deadly sins that kill the effectiveness of your webinars and how to avoid them. [Read more…]
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